Cook Children's Health Care System Reviews

Cons

Health benefits are expensive but good. If your child is admitted to Cook Childrens hospital it is paid for 100%

Cons

Like many places sometimes it is sometimes too
corporate and the bottom line gets
in the way of caring for the patients. They do care about making patients happy and hiring very good peope.

Cons

HR department is the worst! I was terminated for working on leave of absence. I was not working, just receiving a salary from a part time job. When I called the HR would not discuss. My department I worked in always gave me glowing reviews!!!

Cons

moral needs a lot of help

Cons

Completely corporate care now, and ran as such.

Cons

-Work life balance is terrible, expect to rack up 10 hours of overtime every week
-Problem retaining staff
-Expect a bad schedule
-They give a lot of PTO to use but you will never get to use it
-Unnecessarily stressful because you will be doing the work of 3 people because
  a lot of people will show up to their shift and not do any work
-If you get on overnights you will be stuck there until you quit
- Supervisors are useless and its a shell game on whether or not they want to help make this place a little better to work in

Cons

Not the greatest benefits in the world, but they are competitive with other employers in the metroplex.

Cons

○ Lacks leadership strength
○ Many managers are former analysts, non-tech types, promoted from within...haven't a clue how to manage 1) a department, or 2) top-notch people
○ Turnover
○ Decisions oftentimes based on feel, emotion, hunch, rather than fact-based
○ Privileged few get to work-from-home
○ Epic conversion has leadership worried, frazzled. Recent demotion of Epic project manager indicates reactive nature of decision-making
○ Epic employees expected to work O/T
○ Limited IT development opportunities. Work mostly on third-party apps, not the place for a dev geek/rockstar. Old technology (web forms circa 2010) No MVC, WebAPI, cloud, etc.
○ No casual Friday
○ "For the kids..." mantra is lip service

Cons

If you work hard and contribute to the team, no downsides.

Cons

On the non-clinical side of operations there is not much room for advancement. You're hired for a specific role and unless management determines there is a need for more than you were hired to do, you can feel stuck in your duties.